Uglacy Challenge

Aackrod Pugsley was living the familiar lawn life–he had his unfloored, sheetrocked bathroom with the exposed light bulb, his uncomfortable bed beneath the stars, his ugly couch, cinderblock bookcase, and cheap stereo, and he had his fridge with a couple of counters for whipping up chef salads. He had a job in the mailroom of a faceless corporation. But he didn’t have love.

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Kaebrianl sailed through toddlerhood on a couple bottles of Smart Milk and grew into a child. Melissa and Aackrod’s work schedules necessitated hiring a nanny for a day, which turned out much better than usual–since Kaebrianl didn’t actually need any attention, Kendal the nanny spent her time cleaning the house and left the family a turkey dinner at the end of her shift. (!) Kaebrianl is a cheerful Sim who loves to clean, usually amuses herself, and gave me the “oh goody!” look when I sent her to work out for body points. Why, oh, why did she have to be part of the Uglacy? Really a waste.
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Kaebrianl was determined to overcome her shyness and be a successful Popularity Sim. She wanted to meet some new faces, so she idly started calling services on the phone to see if anyone interesting popped up. Repair? Nah, too old. Maid? Nope, a woman. Bartender? Nope, dull-looking female. But, she rolled up the want to have a party. Of course, she wasn’t actually friends with anyone, but she threw the party anyway, since her parents had already invited over their friends Sandy and Goopy. Then, as an afterthought, she bought a bar for the den and phoned the bartending service. This time, it was as if angels sang and a ray of light beamed through the phone–Juan the Bartender was on call!

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Kaebrianl had invited over the dashing Juan McCullough to watch her transition into an early adulthood, and sparks flew. Juan is a Knowledge Sim who came with full charisma as well as 7 creativity, 6 logic, 4 cleaning and 1 body, not to mention a wardrobe containing every possible NPC uniform, a thousand stuffy business suits, and several sets of sweats. Choosing the solitary example of “middle ground” to be found in the dresser, Juan selected a polo and beige pants as his outfit. A 6/6/5/8/2 who, in that weird NPC body-snatcher kind of way, apparently started life as a 5/3/7/3/7, Juan is the only NPC I’ve seen with more than 25 total personality points. Upon his arrival in the household, Juan had met a total of TWO Sims, Kaebrianl and Aackrod. What a man about town. Kaebrianl and Juan wasted no time (nor decorum) getting engaged and then married by themselves in the den so that they could get down to the business of conceiving an heir. In the meantime, angels swooped down from the heavens and added another floor to their house.
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Turning the family of three remaining Pugsleys into a family of four was no small feat. In an attempt to speed up Norman’s Tedious Teenhoodâ„¢, he went to have a sip of elixir in low green with three days left before his birthday. And it gave him three more days. He tried again. He got three more days. He tried again. He got three more days. He kept going, trying to at least undo the extra time, until he had regenerated his entire teenhood and was back to 15 days. After something like three tanks of elixir, he finally got back down to just three days and left it at that. Meanwhile, Juan and Kaebrianl aged naturally into elders in the green, which would have been the low green if they didn’t autonomously flirt with each other right before six, and actually look fairly distinguished. I think it helps that they’re both at maximum fitness, so they’re not quite as saggy.

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Michaiah ages into a teen who, while ugly, was just not as ugly as God was hoping for. A quick makeover helps that along, however, and now he looks like someone I wouldn’t let into my home.

Following in the family habit, he rolls a Romance aspiration, though I don’t know what self-respecting Sim would want to suck face with any Pugsley since Kaebrianl. Speaking of which, Norman has been cultivating a thing on the side with the maid, Lucy, while Sandy has been pursuing Daniel Pleasant for some extracurriculars of her own, but neither has gotten to sleep around nearly as much as they’d like. Maybe during that home stretch of elderhood.
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Kaebrianl looked to have a good chunk of days left, but, of course, you never know with her. While much trouble has been taken to get her into platinum, her grandson Michaiah has the opposite problem–he needs to feel a little more down in the dumps before he can swill some elixir and reduce his super-extended Tedious Teenhood. When his fears aren’t anything particularly forthcoming, it’s decided that Norman will use the SimVac to suck away Michaiah’s aspiration points. I suppose having Kaebrianl do it would have been more efficient, but it seemed a little too cruel for a grandmotherly goodbye. The trick works, and Norman gets into a superfluous platinum mood while Michaiah approaches the brink of despair. He’s promptly sent to guzzle elixir until he has but three tedious teen days left.
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When we last left newlyweds Michaiah and Carmen, the couple had just conceived what was hoped to be Fionnuala, potential future wife of erstwhile burglar Gordon King. Carmen’s uneventful pregnancy, however, culminated in the birth of a son, Fergal. Fergal, with Michaiah’s blue eyes and Carmen’s black hair, is an Aries 10/9/5/1/9, just like his father. Nice to see personality is entirely on one gene.

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Little Fionnuala Pugsley was a blue-eyed, black-haired miniature of her mother Carmen with the same 10/9/5/1/9 personality as her father Michaiah and her brother Fergal. In all regards, she had become rather secondary when Fergal met the woman of his dreams, exterminator Kenya Bar. The whole family took a liking to Kenya, and she was invited over often until practically everyone in the household was friends with her. Fergal couldn’t wait to become an adult so he could sweep Kenya off her feet.
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Once the dust had settled and all the dyin’ in the Pugsley house was gotten out of the way, the household was left with just Michaiah, his bride Carmen, and their daughter Fionnuala, unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight as heiress after her older brother Fergal tragically died in a starving-haunting-showering accident. However, Fionnuala had the bad luck to be somewhat more attractive than her mother Carmen, which didn’t bode well for the family line.

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Fionnuala arrived home from college to little fanfare. Her parents were preoccupied with trying to reach the tops of their careers, which promised to make them happier than Fionnuala ever could. Taking a deep breath, Fionnuala phoned Andrew, her first love, and asked him to come over for a visit. While she waited for him, she went and primped in front of the mirror. No more stylish buns, she thought–she needed a hairstyle that accentuated her wide face. And no more makeup–it only brought out her better features, and she wanted to look her ugliest for Andrew. Au naturel it was.

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It was none too soon that Fionnuala’s twins Rance and Reumah grew from toddlers to children. Oddly, it seemed that Reumah had grown to look just like Fionnuala, and Rance was now a miniature of his father Ray.

Fionnuala warmed a little toward Rance’s increasingly unseemly nose, but shortly thereafter she gave birth to her fourth child, a son named Chesed with blue eyes and cocoa skin. Chesed, a 10/8/8/5/3 mean neat freak, held little hope for Fionnuala, as he grew into his toddler years an attractive dark-skinned child (which convinced Ray that his understanding of genetics must have been faulty), and Fionnuala fell into a despair. This would never do.

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